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Mayzie Approved: Favorite Tales of Monsters and Trolls

It's been a banner week here in the Vistas. I got a shout-out and a link from one of my favorite new blogs, Kindertrauma, in their Traumafessions section, with a sweet video of the Toht melt-face from Raiders of the Lost Ark. And tonight, when my daughter Mayzie

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Some Madness With That Big Bite?

I found this picture on Kindertrauma, my new favorite blog. If you wanted a visual depiction of the scariest possible thing I could have imagined as a ten-year-old, it's this, from an '80s video nasty called Madman. I remember renting it with my friend Jeff at 7-11

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Charlie Approved: Safari Ltd. Mythical Realms Toys

So I'm back at the ranch here, after a long summer of travel. I'm back to work, too, and during my Creative Writing class I was reminiscing about "Ghostly Sounds" and played the track from this here blog. Which reminded me that I needed

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New Addition to the Library

Picked up a copy of this at Borders Singapore for the kids this weekend. I am impressed by the art--all full color, and an illustration for almost every entry. Some are the predictable artifacts and classical paintings, but most are original and very well done. My son particularly likes the

Sound Recordings

Another Great Halloween Record

Scar Stuff: Wade Denning "Famous Ghost Stories With Scary Sounds" (Pickwick, SPC-5146, 1975). I remember this one had a terrifying version of "The Telltale Heart." "The Haunted Gold Mine" was another favorite. And check out the simple, yet effective, cover art.

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The Scariest Damn Thing

Download 03-the-moon-is-a-circle-of-ghosts.mp3 MONSTER SHINDIG: Ghostly Sounds - 1975. I went looking for an image of this album cover (remember those?) because I wanted to see if I could find some of the scariest monster images I could remember. This illustration (by the tragically named George Peed) was on a

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I Pulled the Trigger

OTHERWORLD | Home Page. My first blog is a quick one...I just put in an order for a bunch of Otherworld Minis, which seem to have been growing silently and steadily since I first started web-stalking them a year ago. I brought my paints and whatnot back to Singapore with